This is a custom Plymouth theme based on other people's work - mtax's Alien Loves Carbon Usplash theme (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Aliens+Love+Carbon+(usplash)?content=101285) and from fedoraforum.org aditnsr's simple custom Plymouth theme based on Spinfinity code (http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=214557), I just put pieces together. So all credit goes to these two - thanks!
Note: This is not the standard Spinfinity plugin, it's just based on Spinfinity's code - according to the author: "...[this] is basically spinfinity plugin with your image as the background, but without the fedora logo and the throbber"
Howto install:
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First of all you need the tools to build rpm, which should be Fedora's packages:
Quote:
rpm-build
rpmdevtools
So install these two and you should be set.
Then download this archive and extract it, then you need to build this rpm, so issue this command:
Quote:$ rpmbuild -bb rpmbuild/SPECS/plymouth.spec
and of course set your correct path to the SPECS/plymouth.spec. This should create the rpm in rpmbuild/RPMS/{your arch}/, so after this has finished, you just enter this command as root to install the theme:
Quote:$ rpm -i rpmbuild/RPMS/{arch}/plymouth-plugin-spinfinity-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.{arch}.rpm
where again you need to set the right path before the rpmbuild dir.
After that, you need to set it as the default plymouth theme, so do as root:
Quote:$ plymouth-set-default-plugin spinfinity
and then you need to rebuild the initrd with the new plymouth settings, this is done as root by:
Quote:$ /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd
The last thing is to enable Plymouth if you already haven't it. You need to set the kernel boot parameters, so as root edit /boot/grub/grub.conf with kwrite for example
Quote:$ kwrite /boot/grub/grub.conf
and you need to find the line of your actual kernel (usually it's the most upper section) and add to the end of line starting with kernel... parameters 'rhgb vga=792', something like this:
Quote:kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=a5ced134-5346-44b8-b794-a8dc03b856ce vga=792 quiet rhgb
For more info and support please refer to http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=214557
